By Meg Wagner, Melissa Macaya, Mike Hayes, Melissa Mahtani, Veronica Rocha and Fernando Alfonso III, CNN
From CNN's Pervaiz Shallwani
At least two suspected pipe bombs have been rendered safe by law enforcement — one at a building that houses Republican National Committee offices and one in the US Capitol complex, a federal law enforcement official tells CNN
The official said these were real explosive devices and they were blown up to be rendered safe.
From CNN's Homero DeLaFuente
George Washington University’s home men’s basketball game against the University of Massachusetts has been postponed. George Washington stated in a tweet that the game was called off due to the 6 p.m. ET curfew now in place in Washington, DC.
In a statement by the University of Massachusetts, the school says the protests and the curfew were to blame for the postponement and that their basketball team is vacating the area.
“The Minutemen are currently leaving Washington D.C. and will travel back to Massachusetts tonight.”
The Atlantic 10 Conference says it will reschedule the game to a later time.
From CNN’s Brian Fung
Twitter moved Wednesday to restrict engagement with tweets by President Trump and others that have been labeled “due to a risk of violence."
The announcement comes after hours of silence as violent rioters descended on the US Capitol, and amid mounting calls by the Anti-Defamation League and others for Trump’s Twitter account to be suspended outright.
Twitter did not directly address those calls, but said that the restrictions on sharing and engagement are part of its efforts to monitor the “ongoing situation in Washington.”
Likes have been disabled on Trump’s tweet that claimed Vice President Mike Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done,” and those wishing to retweet Trump’s tweet are being prompted to add a comment rather than simply amplifying the content.
“In regard to the ongoing situation in Washington, D.C., we are working proactively to protect the health of the public conversation occurring on the service and will take action on any content that violates the Twitter Rules,” Twitter said.
“Threats of and calls to violence are against the Twitter Rules, and we are enforcing our policies accordingly. In addition, we have been significantly restricting engagement with Tweets labeled under our Civic Integrity Policy due to the risk of violence. This means these labeled Tweets will not be able to be replied to, Retweeted, or liked," the company added.
Twitter is still considering other “escalated enforcement actions,” it added.
From CNN's Adrienne Vogt
CNN's Manu Raju described the scene while being evacuated at the US Capitol after rioters breached the building.
There are police officers in riot gear and gas masks, and the smell of tear gas is throughout the building, Raju reported.
"These rioters have clearly ... breached all elements of this building. You're seeing debris, trash, all in the elevators, things knocked down, posts knocked down, and this is clearly a sign of how they are gone into all parts of this building," he said.
He did not see any rioters currently inside of the building, he said.
See Manu Raju's report:
From CNN's Kaitlan Collins
President Trump's first chief of staff Reince Priebus is one of several former staffers speaking out more forcefully about the pro-Trump riots taking place at the US Capitol than Trump.
"Many of these folks are nothing but domestic terrorists," he tweeted. "And many are criminals and trouble makers all acting in a manner opposite of patriotism. These violent people have no respect for democracy. Pure insanity and disgusting."
From CNN's Kristin Wilson, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, Ali Zaslav and Sarah Fortinsky
Smoke grenades are being deployed on the Senate side of the US Capitol, as Capitol police work to clear the building of rioters.
Windows on the west side of the Senate have been broken, and hundreds of officers are amassing on the first floor of the building.
CNN reporters working in the US Senate, have been told by the Capitol Police that they are being evacuated from the Senate, to an undisclosed location.
The Capitol Police also say the Senate won’t be in session in the Capitol building today or anytime soon, saying the building was “trashed.”
While the officers appear to be speaking with authority, CNN has not independently confirmed that the Senate leadership has made that decision.
From CNN's Jim Acosta
A source close to the White House who is in touch with some of the rioters at the Capitol said it's the goal of those involved to stay inside the Capitol through the night. It's a potential disruption that would further delay the constitutional process that was interrupted by the violence on the Hill.
"Their goal is to occupy the Capitol through the night," the source said of some of the rioters.
As reported earlier, a White House adviser said some aides around President Trump are becoming furious that the President won't do more to stop the insurrection at the Capitol. The adviser said aides have been all but begging Trump to come out and make a statement to begin to calm the situation.
"He doesn't want to," to do more than what he is doing right now, the adviser said.
"If we could throw him to the angry mob, we'd throw him to the angry mob now," the adviser said.
President-elect Joe Biden addressed the pro-Trump riots happening right now at the Capitol, saying the work of the next four years will be rebuilding democracy.
"The work of the moment and the work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy – of decency, honor, respect, the rule of law. Just plain, simple decency," Biden said.
The President-elect said he is "shocked and saddened" that the country has come to "such a dark moment," but added that like other moments in history, America will prevail.
"Through war and strife, America's endured much. And we will endure here and we will prevail again and we'll prevail now," Biden said.
"Today's reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile and to preserve it requires people of good will," he said.
Rioters stormed the US Capitol building earlier today while members of Congress were meeting to certify Biden's win.
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From CNN's Pervaiz Shallwani
At least one officer was pepper sprayed and taken to an area hospital, according Douglas Buchanan, chief of communications for the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services.
Buchanan also said others have been treated and taken to hospitals throughout the day – ranging from cardiac arrest to someone who suffered multiple fractures after falling from scaffolding on the West end of the U.S. Capitol.
